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Loitered Lens: Hang the Bastard

28/09/2015

Thunderous doom and mighty riffage, Hang The Bastard at The Underworld...

TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)

23/09/2015

Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint....

Sex, Slashing and Suffrage: The Rokeby Venus (Diego Velasquez)

19/09/2015

Mary Richardson's ‘vandalism’ of the Rokeby Venus has become part of the story this painting tells, not something which detracts from its beauty. ...

I, for one, welcome my new machine overlord (The art of Russell MacEwan)

14/09/2015

Interview with artist Russell MacEwan on the creation of the artwork for Author & Punisher's Melk En Honing....

Painting the Broken American Dream (Louie Metz)

08/09/2015

Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. ...

I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

Deep vulnerability and paranoia. Salt (Roseau)

17/08/2015

Salt's sound palette mixes electronic pop with more organic, natural sounds - the record's sonics were apparently inspired by a walk around a giant abandoned warehouse nearby ...

Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)

12/08/2015

Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National's collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it....

The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

21/07/2015

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

An Uncanny Phenomenon: Wild Kingdom (Clayton Campbell)

13/07/2015

Los Angeles media artist Clayton Campbell unveils a difference in perception between today’s society and past generations'...

Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

05/11/2013

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

Lux Lives – Long Live Lux Interior

21/10/2013

We raise a large glass in honour of Lux coming into this world and into our lives. Long live Lux Interior. One very important message from the scriptures of Interior is to love life, live with a...

Why ‘Chav’ is a Feminist Issue

03/08/2013

The discourse around ‘chavs’ can be a cover for denigrating the social agency and sexual autonomy of working-class women, as well as wider political attacks on the working class. ...

Soundscape Ecology : interview with Steven M.Miller

07/06/2013

Sound has this wonderful ability to slip past our defenses and infiltrate our experience of place in ways we aren’t aware of, yet respond to nonetheless. Music is just one aspect of this much...

Sarah Lucas: Ordinary Things

18/09/2012

These forms act like vague memories of Lucasʼs former glories.The subject of art history and the idea of art as an object is referenced in them, Lucasʼs stance on the subject seemingly quite glib. ...